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Throughout the book I have increasingly referred to the back-and-forth struggle for power between rival discourse communities. This chapter uses the lens of power to explain how those struggles influenced the inclusion of health issues in planning policy.
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The State conformed to Jessop’s (2007; pp. 9–11) conceptualisation of State Power being more than government but a ‘distinct ensemble of institutions and organisations whose socially accepted function [created as hegemonies for a particular purpose, in this case market led development] is to define and enforce collectively binding decisions on a given population in the name of their “common interest” or “general will”.
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Outside the scope of data collection, the past few years saw a concerted push to legislate and deliver ‘Place-based’ planning. However, despite that effort and thousands of policy man hours to develop a ‘Design and Place’ policy, the responsible planning minister was replaced and the policy immediately dropped. https://thefifthestate.com.au/business/government/down-the-memory-hole-design-and-place-sepp-documents-pulled-from-government-websites/
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Harris, P. (2022). Power. In: Illuminating Policy for Health. Palgrave Studies in Public Health Policy Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13199-8_10
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